Life and times of Gerald de Cruz : a Singaporean of many worlds /
The Life & Times of Gerald de Cruz
Asad-ul Iqbal Latif.
- Singapore : ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2015.
- 1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Gerald de Cruz's life overlapped many of the spheres of Singapore's history after World War II. As a Eurasian, a nationalist, a communist and then a democratic socialist, as a journalist and a writer, he represents the insurgent energies of a truculent time when a nascent nation was seeking the basis of statehood. His commitment to progressive ideas and movements reveals a man of integrity in search of himself in a better world. This book seeks to portray his place in time, particularly for younger Singaporeans who did not live in an era that has inaugurated the history of independent Singapore.